Software Development Tools

93 tools

Encoders, formatters, JWT and regex tools, and generators support developers in APIs, config, and debugging.

Tools for Software Development

About Software Development Tools

Software development is the site's second-largest toolset — 92 tools — covering the everyday encoding, formatting, and debugging utilities that developers reach for constantly but rarely want to write themselves.

Data format conversion is a major theme: the JSON Formatter & Validator, JSON Viewer, and JSON Diff handle the constant need to inspect, validate, and compare API responses and config files, while the YAML/JSON Converter and XML/JSON Converter bridge the format differences between config systems, legacy APIs, and modern JSON-based tooling. The Base64 Encode/Decode tool is a near-daily utility for inspecting tokens, embedded images, or encoded payloads during debugging.

Configuration and tooling round out a large portion of the set: the EditorConfig Generator helps teams standardize formatting rules across a repo, and the Structured Log Viewer makes sense of JSON-formatted application logs during quick local debugging without piping them through a separate log aggregator. Security and web-standards tools — the CSP Helper, SRI Generator, and CORS Preflight Explainer — help developers work through browser security policies that are easy to misconfigure and hard to debug from error messages alone.

What ties the 92 tools together is that they're all things a developer could technically compute or verify by hand or with a quick script, but doing so mid-task breaks flow. Having them as fast, no-install browser utilities — for encoding, diffing, formatting, or explaining a security header — fits naturally into a debugging or code-review session without switching to a terminal or writing throwaway code.